Food protein ingredients

Protein contents of selected oilseeds and legume seeds, and food protein ingredients prepared by various procedures, are shown in Table I. Amino acid contents and protein efficiency ratios (PER s)... 

Generally, vegetable food protein ingredients are more absorbant than other dough components, with the result that mixing time and loaf volume is decreased. In addition, pan bread crumb becomes coarser and occasionally darker in color. Negative effects on loaf volume appear to be inversely related to phytic acid content. 

Lanier, T.C., Functional food protein ingredients from fish, in Seafood Proteins, Sikorski, Z.E., Pan, B.S., and Shahidi, F., Eds., Chapman Hall, New York, 1994, chap. 10. 

Table 2 Functional Requirements of Food Protein Ingredients...

As stated previously, the functional performance of food proteins as ingredients is dictated by surface characteristics, including hydropho-bicity, electrostatic, and steric parameters [100]. All of these properties can be modified by the processing utilized to provide a concentrated food protein ingredient. Although the process modification that influences the functionality of a food protein will be specific to the type of protein processed, there are some general characteristics that apply equally to all common food proteins. These include... 

Edible Protein Ingredients. As of the mid-1990s only peanuts and soybeans are converted iato proteia iagredients for use ia food products. Peanuts are hydraulically pressed to remove about 55% of the oil and the pressed peanuts are then ground iato flours and sold raw or roasted for use ia baked products, snacks, and confections. 

Whole oilseeds and legumes and their derivatives (defatted flours, and protein concentrates and isolates) are used in traditional foods as sources of protein and for their texture-modifying functions. This article reviews, on a comparative basis, processes for preparation of vegetable food proteins, compositions and characteristics of the resulting food ingredients, and their functionalities and uses in traditional foods. 

Thermoplastic extrusion technology has been used to texturize many defatted vegetable protein ingredients, and produce many fibrous structures and meat-like textures. Such processes have been used extensively to prepare meat analogs (1, which have found their widest application in formulation of foods for institutional markets (3). A primary disclosure of extrusion texturization of vegetable proteins was made by Atkinson ( ). General descriptions of various extrusion processes have also been reported (1, 5-14). ... 

Other Protein Components. Other protein components In complex food systems and In protein Ingredient preparations may Interfere with or modify gelation reactions. Protein Interaction between whey protein and casein upon heating has a profound Influence on the characteristics of the casein gel structure In cheesemaking. Similarly protein Interactions are Important to meat structures. Protein-protein Interaction between soy and meat proteins has also been demonstrated with heat treatment (28). While concrete Interaction data have not been collected on protein gels formed from protein combinations, gelation properties of whey proteln/peanut flour blends have been Investigated GU) ... 

Protein is utilized in many foods for the particular characteristics that it contributes to the final product (1 ). In order for protein products to maintain or enhance the quality and acceptability of a food, the protein ingredients should possess certain functional properties that are compatible with the other ingredients and environmental conditions of the food system. Consequently, an important aspect of the development of new protein additives and their incorporation into food systems is the establishment of their functional properties. Functional properties of proteins are physicochemical properties through which they contribute to the characteristics of food. Study of functionality should provide information as to how a protein additive will perform in a food system (, A). These properties are... 

Relationships with other properties. In any food system and possibly in simple systems, the protein ingredient is likely to perform several functions, most of which are being discussed in... 

Milk protein products. As indicated in Table 1, the food industry is placing major emphasis on the production and utilization of milk protein products in a wide variety of formulated food products (20,21,22). Although nonfat dry milk (NFDM) and whey powder are major milk protein ingredients in formulated foods, casein and whey protein concentrates, which contain their proteins in a more highly concentrated and functional form, are essential for certain food product applications, such as those products that require the proteins as an emulsifier agent. Additional details on the processing methods and conditions used to produce the various milk protein products are available (23). 

Genovese MI, Barbosa AC, Pinto Mda S, Lajolo FM. 2007. Commercial soy protein ingredients as isoflavone sources for functional foods. Plant Foods Hum Nutr 62 53-58. 

Possible obstacles to using immunoassays are created by environmental factors, such as pH, temperature, or other food product ingredients, e.g., endogenous enzymes whose specificity is similar to the specificity of the enzyme present in the conjugate, colorings present in a given samples can interfere with the color obtained from the enzyme-substrate reaction, phenolic compounds which can adsorb proteins. 

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